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Vi. Analytic Summary VI. ANALYTIC SUMMARY ANALYTIC SUMMARY Agirreazkuenaga Zigorraga, Iñaki (Universidad del País Vasco / Eus- kal Herriko Unibertsitatea): ¿Puede encauzarse en el ordenamiento jurídico español el Derecho a decidir? (Can the right to decide be channelled in the Spanish legal order?). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 299-337. Abstract: In this paper, we reflect on the plurinational nature of Spain, and the supposed existence of the right to decide, or how this is put in practice. For example, through citizen consultation, and even through regional elections which have become quasi-referendums which, if not legally channelled within the domestic legal framework, along the lines of the doctrine set forth by the Canadian Supreme Court, can lead to a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, which has no domestic legal validity. However, internationally, its significance depends on the strength of the democratic support behind it. As things stand, peaceful coexistence, negotiation and agreement can lead to a prudent legal so- lution, meaning that a procedural regulation of self-determination or the right to decide is approved for the various nations of Spain without any hysterics, not creating further problems but, on the contrary, resolving existing ones. Key words: Spain. Catalonia. Euskadi. Can the right to decide. Self-deter- mination. Independence. Alli Aranguren, Juan Cruz (Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroa- ko Unibertsitate Publikoa): El desarrollo inicial del Amejoramiento del Fuero de Navarra. (The initial implementation of the Improvement of the Charter of Navarra). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 37-92. Abstract: After Reintegration and Improvement of the Chartered Regime Act 13/1982 (Ley Orgánica 13/1982, de Reintegración y Amejoramiento del Régimen Foral) came into force, its identificatory, institutional and jurisdiction- al content was implemented, to establish the Autonomous Community outlined therein. Since then, some minor amendments have been made, and an attempt to make more far-reaching reforms. Key words: Navarra. Act 13/1982. Improvement. Identity. Institutions. Powers. Reforms. Iura Vasconiae, 12/2015, 605-613 607 ANALYTIC SUMMARY Álvarez Rubio, Juan José (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): Fuentes del Autogobierno vasco y Derecho a decidir: mito o realidad en el marco europeo. (Sources of Basque self-government and the right to decide: myth or reality in the European context). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 363-392. Abstract: The future of the Basque Country as a territorial entity within the context of a globalised world poses an interdisciplinary intellectual challenge, to which an important legal dimension is attached, but not solely and exclusively, because the Law should provide a means of solving problems, building bridges for coexistence, and it should not cause problems because of its imperative and inflexible nature. We are compelled to examine Europe and analyse comparable international practices, to try to make the case that the solution is cannot be reached through what is always harmful simplification. We must move away from Manichaeism and examine all of the alternatives that could possibly be accommodated within our self-government, within the international context of «realpolitik», both from an internal and external perspective. Key words: Basque country. Europe. Right to decide. Self-government. Crimea. Kosovo. Ayerbe Iríbar, María Rosa (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): Las Ordenanzas ilustradas de la villa de Elgoibar (1751). (The enlightened Ordinances of the town of Elgoibar (1751)). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 501-572. Abstract: We examine the Municipal Ordinances approved in 1751 by the town of Elgoibar in Gipuzkoa and ratified by the King a year later, a vivid reflec- tion of a society and a historic moment of great institutional and social change, driven by the new Bourbon dynasty and the enlightened ideas introduced by it. Key words: Municipal Ordinances. Elgoibar. Gipuzkoa. 18th century. Bengoetxea Caballero, Joxerramon (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea): El derecho a decidir. Su planteamiento en el Derecho Internacional. (The Right to Decide. An Analysis from the Theory of International Law). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 339-361. Abstract: The right to decide is here analysed from a double perspective. First, by starting off from the analysis of the major instruments of public interna- tional law, we see that there no legal institute of the right to decide from a legal positivist point of view. If we analyse the legal foundation for the institute of pu- 608 Iura Vasconiae, 12/2015, 605-613 ANALYTIC SUMMARY blic international law that is most closely related to the right to decide, the right of peoples to selfdetermination then we can indeed detect a similarity between the two rights. This proximity takes us to the second perspective, the democratic foundation of the right to decide as a political discourse and of the right to self -determination as a positive legal right. Following Neil MacCormick, the paper calls for a new approach to understanding law that gives theoretical primacy to the norm users. Norm users constitute themselves in autonomus normative communities, political demos, which exercise and claim self-government, de- cision-making power and subsidiarity with a view to pursuing their idea of the «common wealth» and creating solidarity networks where they can share their popular sovereignty with other demoi. Having reached this point, the right to de- cide becomes an expression of participatory democracy and empowered citizens who aspire to share decsion-making spheres of justice and citizen participation following those spheres to all levels of governance where the relevant decisions are being made. Key words: Right to Decide. Self-Determination. Autonomy. Sovereign- ty. Selfgovernment. Neil MacCormick. De la Hucha Celador, Fernando (Universidad Pública de Navarra/Na- farroako Unibertsitate Publikoa): Amejoramiento del Fuero: una valoración desde la actualidad. (Improvement of the Charter: a present-day analysis). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 93-153. Abstract: Since Navarra became an Autonomous Community, the Con- stitutional Court has made a number of rulings that have seen significant re- centralisation of the State of the Autonomies and encroachment on autonomous powers. Leaving to one side doctrinal disputes about whether or not the Im- provement of the Charter of Navarra is a Statute of Autonomy, we will con- centrate on determining the legal status of Navarra in constitutional jurispru- dence. We examine the peculiar process followed to grant Navarra the status of an Autonomous Community, the ways of reforming the Improvement and the need to democratise the chartered regime. We advocate improving the system- atic framework of Navarra’s institutional regulations, while choosing to accept the consequences and effects that joining the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country while preserving Navarra’s key institutions would have on the chartered regime. Key words: 1978 constitution. Improvement of the Charter. Chartered re- gime. Procedure of reforming the Statute of Navarra. Joining the Basque Coun- try. Referendum and shared regional sovereignty. Iura Vasconiae, 12/2015, 605-613 609 ANALYTIC SUMMARY Ezeizabarrena Saenz, Xabier (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal He- rriko Unibertsitatea): Del primer Gobierno Ibarretxe a la propuesta de nuevo Estatuto presentada por el Lehendakari: ¿hacia la soberanía compartida? (From the first Ibarretxe government to the new Basque Statute proposed: to- ward a reinterpretation of the concept of sovereignty). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 185-216. Abstract: within the context of the proposed reform of the Statute of Gernika. In it, we carry out a theoretical and practical reflection on the Basque Government that was led by the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Govern- ment) Ibarretxe, who put forward this proposal for statutory reform. We also examine some of the problems that persist today in the constitutional and Euro- pean legal plan. Key words: Historic rights. Shared sovereignty. Self-government. Bilate- rality. Self-determination. Francés Lecumberri, Paz (Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa): El encierro y el destino de las mujeres presas en Na- varra. (The imprisonment and fate of female prisoners in Navarra). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 441-498. Abstract: In this paper, we will provide an historical overview of the different forms of female imprisonment over the course of history in Navarra, detailing the most important issues and then examining the current situation of women in Spanish prisons, particularly in Pamplona. We aim to show how women’s prisons from the past and present have common features that have allowed an invisible link to be established throughout the history of female im- prisonment which can still be found today, even in the equality plans of the Penal Institutions Authority. Key words: Navarra. Imprisonment. Equality. Feminism. Punishment. Penal law. Civilizational change. Herrero de Miñón, Miguel (Consejo de Estado): La singularidad vasca en la actualidad. (The idiosyncrasy of the Basque Country today). (Orig. es). In Iura Vasconiae, 12, 425-437. Abstract: The article analyses the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country. This shows a significant parallelism with the Statute of Navarra, be- cause both collected various material factors of
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